Meeting 2015 International Hunger Targets: Taking Stock of Uneven Progress
This year´s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) and World Food Summit hunger targets and reflects on what needs to be done, as we transition to the new post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda. The report reviews progress made since 1990 for every country and region as well as for the world as a whole.
Progress towards the MDG 1 target, however, is assessed not only by measuring undernourishment, or hunger, but also by a second indicator – the prevalence of underweight children under five yearsof age. Progress for the two indicators across regions and over time, is compared, providing insights into the complexity of food security.
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Извор: WUNRN – 27.05.2015
Sofia, Bulgaria - The Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 reflected a strong consensus among Member States that reducing inequalities, including in access to sexual and reproductive health, and ensuring equal rights for women and girls, form the basis for individual well-being and sustainable development.
Two decades later, at a General Assembly Special Session in September 2014, Member States reconfirmed their commitment to placing the rights and well-being of individuals at the centre of efforts to promote social and economic development and to addressing the gaps identified during the ICPD Beyond 2014 review process – across multiple sectors and throughout the life course. Although significant improvements have been made, the ICPD Beyond 2014 review in Eastern Europe and Central Asia has also shown that progress is uneven and incomplete.
The Least Developed Countries represent the poorest and weakest segment of the international community. They comprise more than 880 million people (about 12 per cent of world population), but account for less than 2 percent of world GDP and about 1 percent of global trade in goods. Their low level of socio-economic development is characterized by weak human and institutional capacities, low and unequally distributed income and scarcity of domestic financial resources. They often suffer from governance crisis, political instability and, in some cases, internal and external conflicts. The category of LDCs was officially established in 1971 by the UN General Assembly. The current list of LDCs includes 48 countries (the newest member being South Sudan); 34 in Africa, 13 in Asia and the Pacific and 1 in Latin America.
EIGE – European Institute for Gender Equality - This report is a result of the Institute’s work of the past three years, which presents a synthetic measure of gender equality – the Gender Equality Index. It is the only index that gives a comprehensive map of gender gaps in the EU and across Member States based on the EU policy framework. http://eige.europa.eu/content/document/gender-equality-index-report
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